Today we’re quietly (and finally!) opening up Railfinder to the public! This is our beta version and - hopefully - the first step towards that one booking site for trains across Europe that we all dream of.
Lots of work has gone into this and equally lots still to do before reach that vision, but if you’d like to try what we’ve built you can now just go to https://www.railfinder.eu and have a go!
Any and all feedback more than welcome 🙏
And for the nerds among us, we have a page on all the details that went into this - including our initial ticket coverage & how the search works: https://www.railfinder.eu/how-it-works
Ask me anything!
@stefanlindbohm Right now, I notices that Saarübrcken Hbf is missing (very weird it has secondary stations, but not the main one).
Also, I think it is worth mentioning you do charge booking fees. It would be nice to explain clearly the rates applied.
Last, any intention of supporting deutschland tickets, loyalty cards and discount cards ?
(I have a tricky test case with SNCF, you will need to run TER fare search with each applicable card separately as the SNCF backend is buggy and hasn't been fixed despite several reports).
@Sobex Yes we have issues with stations that are on a country border. Thanks for the report, will fix!
Good point also on the fees! We also know we will to monitor and adjust to make sure they always make sense with min and max limits.
We definitely want to support reduction cards. Once we do, the SNCF issue should not be a problem for us as we request tickets for each segment independently :)
@stefanlindbohm Well, ticket for each segment independently is not enough to sort out issue when two cards are applicable to a single TER trip.
I'll PM the exact combo I use.
Stefan Lindbohm
Dr. Sobek